Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £190 |
RICCARDI PRESS - The Book of Genesis. Now Printed in the Authorised Version. London: "Philip Lee Warner Publisher to the Medici Society Ltd.", 1914. 4to (265 x 200mm). Half title, title printed in blue and black with a circular illustration of Adam and Eve, text printed in Riccardi Fourteen Point Fount, 10 mounted coloured plates by Frederick Cayley Robinson. Original limp vellum lettered in gilt, green silk ties, top edges gilt, others uncut (without the dust-jacket). LIMITED TO 512 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 174 OF 500 COPIES ON "HANDMADE RICCARDI PAPER". Loosely-inserted are 4 printed flyers issued by the press. Ransom Private Presses and their Books p.395; Tomkinson A Select Bibliography of the Principal Modern Presses p.149.